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.Dd January 3, 1995
.Dt BOCA 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm boca
.Nd
multiplexing serial communications interface
.Sh SYNOPSIS
For 4-port BB1004 boards:
.Pp
.Cd "boca0 at isa? port 0x100 irq 5"
.Cd "com2 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com3 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com4 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com5 at boca? slave ?"
.Pp
For 8-port BB1008 boards:
.Pp
.Cd "boca0 at isa? port 0x100 irq 5"
.Cd "com2 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com3 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com4 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com5 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com6 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com7 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com8 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com9 at boca? slave ?"
.Pp
For 16-port BB2016 boards:
.Pp
.Cd "boca0 at isa? port 0x100 irq 5"
.Cd "com2 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com3 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com4 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com5 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com6 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com7 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com8 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com9 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "boca1 at isa? port 0x140 irq 5"
.Cd "com10 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com11 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com12 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com13 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com14 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com15 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com16 at boca? slave ?"
.Cd "com17 at boca? slave ?"
.Pp
(The BB2016 is functionally equivalent to two BB1008 boards,
and is configured as such.)
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm boca
driver provides support for BOCA Research BB1004, BB1008 and BB2016
boards that multiplex together up to four, eight or sixteen
.Tn EIA
.Tn RS-232C
.Pf ( Tn CCITT
.Tn V.28 )
communications interfaces.
.Pp
Each
.Nm
device is the master device for up to eight
.Nm com
devices.  The kernel configuration specifies these
.Nm com
devices as slave devices of the
.Nm
device, as shown in the synopsis.  The slave ID given for each
.Nm com
device determines which bit in the interrupt multiplexing register is
tested to find interrupts for that device.
The
.Tn port
specification for the
.Nm
device is used to compute the base addresses for the
.Nm com
subdevices and the port for the interrupt multiplexing register.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Pa
.It Pa /dev/tty??
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr com 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver was written by Charles Hannum, based on the
.Nm ast
driver and source code from David Muir Sharnoff.  David wishes to
acknowledge the assistance of Jason Venner in determining how to use
the BOCA boards.